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Originally Posted by stodge
I bought a PRS-650 the other day. It's my first ereader and it's already loaded with numerous free books and a few I bought yesterday. I love the device so far and the fact that I have 50 books on one small portable device. I realized while looking at my pile of new, unread books on the floor that there is something intrinsically beautiful about a new, unread paperback and I felt pangs of guilt and regret. Does anyone else feel the same way?
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I thought I might feel that way, but I don't.
I really appreciate the books I already have that would never work well on an ereader due to graphics and special layout but where a straight read, whether fiction or nonfiction, is concerned, I just hadn't been doing much of this for years now. For some reason using an ereader makes me more involved in what the author is saying, and because of that I've probably read more books of this type in the past month since I bought a Nook than I have in the last decade.
I'm doing pretty well so far just with the freebies, so have only bought one or two, but I did subscribe to The New Yorker to see how that went, and I'm currently working through my fourth library checkout (More Money than God by Sebastian Mallaby, which follows The Bedwetter by Sara Silverman, The Day After Tomorrow by Allan Folsom, and The Bourne Objective by Eric Van Lustbader). I've probably read twice that much from among B&N's stock of freebies and the stuff they've released on free Fridays.
In my case I guess there's not much to miss, since between myself and my wife there are already so many books in the house (mine are mostly textbooks and reference) that with anything new that shows up it's a matter of which dust bunny to store it next to in which corner after we're through with it. The shelves are full and the floors are creaking (or at least I imagine they are). So other than the fact the ereader seems to allow me to get closer to what the author is saying, it also relieves me of the responsibility of having to concern myself with storage. A definite plus.